Category: Crime

A 35-year-old Islamic cleric, Jamiu Olasheu, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, alongside three others for being in unlawfull possession of a human skull. It was gathered that a police patrol team from the Agbara Division, which was on routine crime prevention patrol of the area, accosted two men on a motorcycle at the Kofedoti area of Agbara. When the men, Teslim Ayeniromo, 45, and Sunday Kolade, 35, were searched, a human skull was discovered in a sack found with them. Confirming the arrest, the…

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Blessing Aluna, 23, of the Rimi Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State, has been arrested by Police operatives attached to the Madalla Division in Niger State for alleged human trafficking. She was arrested alongside one Oludare Jeprince, 36, of Giri Abuja, in the Madalla area of Suleja for abducting a three-year-old child. It was learnt that Aluna, who resides in the Madalla area of Suleja, had at some point allegedly sold her one-week-old baby for N200,000. It was learnt that she was nabbed for allegedly conniving with Jeprince, who…

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Lagos state police command has arrested a band of robbers, led by a woman, who specializes in robbing Uber drivers. Also arrested along with the lady are two members of the gang identified as Zino Tochukwu Ude and Anumelechi Chris Williams. The police however did not disclose the identity of the female member of the gang, saying that she was helping them to get at other fleeing suspects. Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal who ordered the operation that led to the arrest of the suspects yesterday said that…

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A homosexual ring has been busted in Lekki area of Lagos state by the state police command. The leader of the gang and his accomplice, 16-year-old boy are undergoing interrogation at the State Command Headquarters, Ikeja. It was gathered that the kingpin, Prince Chinecherem, 32, was alleged to have been using the minor for business transaction as he was sleeping with him and hiring him to other customers. Two prominent pastors and other business executives have been declared wanted by the police for allegedly having canal knowledge of the minor…

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A 35-year-old man, Adojoh Ojonugwa has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command, for allegedly stealing his sister and brother wife’s pants in Akure. The suspect was arrested along with a pastor, Olajide Ogunleye, who was also alleged to be involved in the crime. Five ladies’ pants were found inside Ojonugwa’s bag, two of which reportedly belonged to his brother’s wife, while his sister owned the others. The Kogi State indigene was alleged to be planning to use the pants for money-making rituals. It was gathered that when the…

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Kidnap allegation has been levelled against two drivers, Emmanuel Okomeyin, 27, and Anyia Austine, 30, who were arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for attempting to kidnap their employer’s wife. The accused, whose residential addresses were not provided, are facing two counts of conspiracy and attempted kidnap. According to the police prosecutor, Michael Unah, the accused allegedly attempted to kidnap their employer’s wife, Mrs Ijeoma Ezeokafor, from her residence. Unah said the accused committed the offences on October 26, 2018, around 1pm at 1A Dora Crescent, Ajah, Lagos. He added…

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A 10-year-old boy on Monday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan that his mother asked him to put poison in his father’s food and bathing water. Adenike Ayodele, the mother of the boy, had petitioned the court to dissolve her 15-year-old marriage to her estranged husband, Adeshina, on grounds of irresponsibility and battery. In his testimony, the boy told the court that his mother gave him a package which contained some powdery substance which she instructed him to pour in his father’s food as well as his bathing water.…

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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has ordered the remand of a 28-year-old pastor, Seyi Adelana, who allegedly defiled two boys, at Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos. When the case was called up, the magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, refused to take the plea of the accused. She ordered that the accused be kept behind bars, pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. Adelana, who resides at Igbogbo area of Ikorodu, Lagos, is being tried for defilement. The accused committed the offence between June and November 2018, at his residence, the prosecutor,…

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The claimant to the throne of Ayetoro in the oil-rich Ilaje council area of Ondo state, Oluwambe Ojagbohunmi has been remanded in prison custody by a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ondo State, for alleged robbery, conduct likely to cause a breach of peace and arson. Magistrate Mayomi Olanipekun, who gave the order, said it was to enable the court to get advice from the Department of Public Prosecutions, DPP. The Police had accused Ojagbohunmi of conspiracy to commit a felony to wit robbery and therefore committed an offence contrary to…

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